(3) In collocations with win, esp. in regard to one's ordinary business transactions as a citizen: to lose (money, advantage, etc.). Phr. between the tyning and the winning, in a critical or doubtful state, hovering between success and failure (Sc. 1825 Jam.); of weather: unsettled, changeable (Ags. 1956).
Sc. 1700 Records Conv. Burghs (1880) 305: Bearing all portable charges with his neighbours and bears a pairt of their public burdens, and can tin and win in all their affairs.Edb. 1771 Session Papers, Mackenzie v. Brown & Craig Proof 13: Mrs Dunbar is a woman of unexceptionable character; has neither winning or tyning in the present action.Sc. 1784 G. CawPoet. Museum 374: The pauky wiles nae motion lost, 'Tween tyning aft an' winning.Ayr. 1794 BurnsA Vision iv.: Like Fortune's favors, tint as win.Sc. 1824 ScottRedgauntlet xx.: Having left my cause in the dead-thraw between the tyneing and the winning.Ayr. 1834 GaltLiter. Life III. 39: There is a time atween the tining and the winning in every man's life.wm.Sc. 1882 Songs Cld. (Nimmo) 26: Sic comin' and gangin', and wooin' and thrangin', And tynin' and winnen'.

(2) To lose a cause at law, to fail in one's suit or claim (Sc. 1825 Jam.). Hence tyner, -ar, the loser in a legal case (Sc. 1808 Jam.).
Sc. 1712 FountainhallDecisions (1761) II. 728: Laws of all nations ordain the tyner of a cause to pay the victor's expence.Abd. 1824 G. SmithDouglas 103: I tint the cause; but, or it was made clear, It cost me a' the nout within my byre.